For the first time in forever I worked at home as Mr. Lancia had nothing scheduled for today since all of the calls he had were canceled. Today was filled with lots of research about different product add-ons for Lenovo Vantage Smart Performance. This research was unfortunately cut a little short when my dog decided that my lap was the place to be. After try multiple positions to be able to work with him on my lap I finally gave in after a couple hours due to us hitting the road to embark on the mission of moving my sister out. Blaring “Life is a highway” from Disney’s Cars we finally made it after encountering 14 too many ambulances along the way. Luckily I was able to get a little more done upon arriving at our hotel.
Tag: Data Analysis
Laber Labs | Day 2
We spent our time today learning about statistics and seeing some real-world problems involving data analysis. Some of these included deciding where to place armor on a WWII plane, determining which advertisements involve sex trafficking, how amazon decides what to show you in recommended pages for shopping, and more. We also spent time solving statistical problems. Such as where to place a hypothetical restaurant that serves inverse burritos (meat on the outside, the rest on the inside) using data from people in the area and data from restaurants.
For my visual image I took a picture of the chapel next to where we’re doing our work experience! 😀
Lenovo
9:00 AM the usual starting line up. Start up the calls and work till the time strikes 2:00. Alright alright that is probably enough song for today. Now where was I, oh right calls. Today’s adventures took a unique but confusing turn when I wound up in a training meeting that had one too many loop holes. From multiple files with very similar names to steps that only work or appear for certain things there was lot to joke about after over lunch as we could already picture the confused costumer reviews lining the site.
5/25
Today, after getting feedback on our graphics from yesterday, we learned how to use PowerBI to create a dashboard with statistics. PowerBI is a very efficient tool to create graphs, as it automatically creates charts when you combine two columns from excel, using whatever type of graph it thinks fits best or you manually select. I really like using PowerBI to display information, it is an excellent tool and I think it will help me in my career to be proficient in PowerBI. Here is the first dashboard I created, with the same WHO covid statistics. 
5/24
Today was our first day in the office, and what a great way to start! We began by meeting the other two people who would be most involved in our internship, Mike and Depti, and learning more about their jobs and what the company does as a whole. The fun part was after lunch, when we were given COVID data from the WHO and had to answer questions about statistics from the countries and regions using excel to create pivot tables and pivot charts. We created graphics to show answers to these questions and will present them tomorrow morning for feedback. Here’s a graphic I created to show the vaccination statistics by region.
Lenovo
Today was filled with insightful reflecting whether that was on goals for this year or for projects I started. Reflection is not all I had up my sleeve as a new project sprung us into the future of what Lenovo’s VSP (vantage smart performance) could be. From optimizing drive space to controlling high usage apps to managing start-ups today’s work was never dull, nor were the flowers that hung from the wall. Well that’s all for today but know for sure there is more to this story then ever before.
Lenovo
Through endless string of calls, today’s adventures began. From staff meetings to project work there was never a dull moment in the scheme of learning something new about how a company functions. The funniest moment came from when we had to change conference rooms for a meeting since someone was using the one we had prior we were faced with our biggest challenge… old technology. After we got teams sorted out from our echoing situation we found the struggle of cameras moving to noise and movement. While Mr. Lancia was explaining to his team about their project with Amazon Alexa we found the camera to only zoomed in on me instead of him which made me feel like part of their world.
Lenovo
Instead of arriving at the the usual 9:00 AM like the rest of the days, today I arrived at 11:00 AM in order for Mr. Lancia to have everything needed for me set up. After calling up to meet my boss for the week we realized there was something wrong. Even after a conformation email from the security office saying I was in the system, we still found issues due to old computers (Shocking I know as we were in a tech company building who created computers). After a long journey across the lake to get my pass we finally made it to the office to get down to business. From learning about working in an office to being delegated work today has truly opened my eyes to a whole new world. 
Laber Labs
I think this is supposed to be a test blog but idk
It Helps to Be Human
Forecast, evaluate, repeat. Forecast, evaluate, repeat. Interestingly, these words somehow represent both the iterative process through which I finalized my FPP presentation as well as its content. I predicted how each slide would turn out, analyzed the final outcome, readjusted as I saw fit. So much of what we do, day to day, involves creating judgmental forecasts. Lately, the push has been to digitize, to create rigorous numerical models that match our qualitative perceptions and raise them a quantitative level of precision.
Throughout the past couple of days, I’ve been thinking about “big data.” Some find fault with the notion that we can simply mathematize decision-making. Perhaps, they fear a loss of control and accountability. These complaints are more than valid; they are imperative and worthy of considerable deliberation as our society sets its course for future decades. Blindly trusting computer simulations and estimations ignores the human side of real-world problems. One-size fits all algorithms are helpful, but they must always maintain outlets for personal alterations, wiggle room if you will. Give us room to wiggle, and we will give you room to forecast, evaluate, and repeat, be it with supercomputers or mere pencil and paper.
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Fun fact for any of you League of Legend players (I believe it is a video game of some sort):
NC State students could use you for help on their project. See the above graphic’s details.